Listen below and make sure to check back in June for a new edition, live via our page on Red Light Radio or on-demand via Africanhiphop.com. Playlist Africa Is Hot – May 2015Jovi – Kankwe (Cameroon)Chazz Lehippie – Fast Traap (South Africa)Odissee – That’s Love (Sudan/US)Sarkodie – Dumsor (Fela Kuti remix) (Ghana)Iftin […]
To our Chicago festival community: As the music festival landscape continues to evolve rapidly, we have made the difficult decision not to host Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago in 2025. This decision was not made lightly. For 19 years, Pitchfork Music Festival has been a celebration of music, art, and community—a space where memories were
Between 5 and 12 November, Africanhiphop.com is reporting live from N’djamena (Chad), where a pan-African slam event brings together artists and representatives from over twenty African nations. This truly pan-African effort seemed like the right occasion to relaunch Africanhiphop.com after a hiatus during which we updated the site’s looks and started retrieving
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Consumer goods labelling comes as an afterthought for many consumers, whose primary concern is to put food on the table. Almost a quarter of SA households do not have access to adequate food, according to the 2023 General Household Survey released by Statistics South Africa. With the cost-of-living crisis still biting, the tendency for shoppers
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The election of Donald Trump changed the world – for a second time. Just days after U.S. vote, and as COP29 opens in Baku in a world more divided than ever, world leaders came together at the 7th edition of the Paris Peace Forum at the historic Palais de Chaillot and other locations across Paris. Under the
“If the United States decided to pull US technology from Europe… then we would have to go back to phone books,” said Ecosia’s CEO. ADVERTISEMENT Two European search engine companies announced on Tuesday that they are building infrastructure in Europe to give Internet users a European search alternative. The companies say the effort is even
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The Lede Company’s Brendan Ordonez and Emma Parker have been promoted to co-head the publicity giant’s new events division. In their expanded roles, Ordonez and Parker will continue to oversee publicity and communications for a wide range of clients in the brand and strategic communications divisions, respectively, while also focusing on further building out the
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The late Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia’s estate has recreated his voice using AI in partnership with Eleven Labs. The singer-songwriter’s voice can now read to ElevenReader app users their choice of audiobooks, articles, poetry, PDFs, and more through what Eleven calls the Iconic Listening Experience, Billboard reported. Garcia’s voice is available in 32 different
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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for “Yellowstone” Season 5 Episode 9, “Desire Is All You Need.” Sunday’s episode of “Yellowstone” was a game-changer, as patriarch John Dutton (Kevin Costner) was killed off after the actor decided not to return to the show. As shocking as the event was, the aftermath has reverberations that set the
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Ella Jenkins, the prolific musician, educator, and entertainer known as the “First Lady of Children’s Folk Song,” has died. Smithsonian Folkways, the label that released all 39 of Jenkins’ albums during her lifetime, confirmed the news in a statement posted to Instagram, sharing that she died “peacefully” at her longtime Chicago, Illinois, home. She was
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